[OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

[Rob Myers]

On 07/15/2010 11:53 PM, 80n wrote:
>
> There's only one undeniable fact in this whole affair.  Exactly 100% of
> all contributors have signed up to CC-BY-SA and have indicated that they
> are willing to contribute their data under that license.

The OSMF vote is also an undeniable fact.

As is the fact that BY-SA doesn't apply to data. Such as geodata.

And that ODbL is, like BY-SA, a share-alike licence. That has been 
designed to apply to data.

So the facts are that we have a licence that doesn't apply, a licence 
that can, and a vote to see if people will make the necessary transition.

> That is a clear mandate for CC-BY-SA.  Where's the mandate for ODbL?

At this point there's a mandate from OSMF and the voluntary relicencing 
will show whether there's a mandate from the community or not.

> After more than two years of license-twiddling they still don't have a
> clue how much support there is.

So let's find out by giving people the opportunity to use it.

- Rob